H. David Kotz
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| Born |
Harold David Kotz June 24, 1966 Toronto, Canada |
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| Employer | Berkeley Research Group |
| Title | Director |
H. David Kotz is a Managing Director with the consulting firm of Berkeley Research Group LLC.
Kotz was a litigation associate at three law firms from 1990–99, and then worked as an attorney/advisor and as Chief of the Office of Labor and Employee Relations at the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1999–2002. He worked at the Peace Corps in the Office of General Counsel as well as Inspector General, from 2002–07.
He then was Inspector General at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from December 2007 until his resignation in January 2012.
Kotz graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1987, with a B.A. in Government and Politics, and earned his J.D. at Cornell Law School in 1990.
In his early career, Kotz worked as a litigation associate at three law firms, working on commercial litigation, discrimination, personal injury, and sexual harassment matters: Graham & James (1990–92) and Stults & Balber (1992–94) in New York City, and Pepper Hamilton LLP (1994–99) in Washington, DC.
Kotz worked at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1999–2002, where he was an Attorney Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel and later a Chief in the Office of Labor and Employee Relations.
Kotz joined the Peace Corps in 2002, and worked there until 2007, during which time he handled labor arbitrations, employee grievances, and prosecutions of rapes, sexual assaults, and other violent crimes against volunteers. For three years, he was an Associate General Counsel. Starting in 2006, he worked for the Peace Corps as Inspector General.
In December 2007, Kotz became the Inspector General at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), following the resignation of his predecessor, Walter Stachnik. He was tasked with conducting independent objective audits of SEC procedures and practices to promote economy, effectiveness, and efficiency. His reports involved many issues, including the SEC not uncovering the Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes, the Bear Stearns collapse and the SEC's office-leasing program after the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul.
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